See cunning on Wiktionary
{ "derived": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0", "word": "cunning folk" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0", "word": "cunning linguist" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0", "word": "cunning linguistics" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0", "word": "cunningly" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0", "word": "cunning man" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0", "word": "cunningness" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0", "word": "cunning woman" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0", "word": "overcunning" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0", "word": "uncunning" } ], "descendants": [ { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "ja", "2": "カンニング", "bor": "1", "t1": "cheating", "tr1": "kanningu" }, "expansion": "→ Japanese: カンニング (kanningu, “cheating”)", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "→ Japanese: カンニング (kanningu, “cheating”)" } ], "etymology_number": 1, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*ǵneh₃-" }, "expansion": "", "name": "root" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "cunning" }, "expansion": "Middle English cunning", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "cunninde" }, "expansion": "Middle English cunninde", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "cunnende" }, "expansion": "Old English cunnende", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "con", "3": "ing" }, "expansion": "con + -ing", "name": "suffix" }, { "args": { "1": "sco", "2": "cunnand", "3": "", "4": "cunning" }, "expansion": "Scots cunnand (“cunning”)", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "de", "2": "könnend", "3": "", "4": "able to do" }, "expansion": "German könnend (“able to do”)", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "is", "2": "kunnandi", "3": "", "4": "cunning" }, "expansion": "Icelandic kunnandi (“cunning”)", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle English cunning, kunning, konnyng, alteration of earlier Middle English cunninde, kunnende, cunnand, from Old English cunnende, present participle of cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”), equivalent to con + -ing. Cognate with Scots cunnand (“cunning”), German könnend (“able to do”), Icelandic kunnandi (“cunning”). More at con, can.", "forms": [ { "form": "more cunning", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most cunning", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "cunning (comparative more cunning, superlative most cunning)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "24 1 21 4 4 5 5 14 23", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "42 0 45 13", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -ing", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 23 15 6 6 5 7 13", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun)", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 0 23 4 5 7 6 12 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "26 0 23 5 4 5 5 8 25", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "27 0 25 2 2 3 3 12 26", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "22 3 19 11 6 7 7 8 18", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "49 6 38 7", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Arabic translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Armenian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Belarusian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 21 4 6 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Catalan translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 2 21 4 4 6 5 13 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Chukchi translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 6 39 11", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Czech translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "20 0 24 4 5 7 6 12 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Dutch translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 0 23 3 3 4 4 12 25", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "20 0 24 4 6 7 6 12 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with French translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Galician translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "43 6 40 11", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Georgian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "22 2 23 5 5 6 5 11 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with German translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "48 6 41 6", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Gothic translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "42 6 39 13", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "47 0 48 5", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ido translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "49 0 45 6", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ingrian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "47 6 39 7", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Irish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Italian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Japanese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Korean translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "51 0 47 2", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Kott translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Latin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Latvian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Lithuanian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 21 4 5 6 6 12 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "39 3 37 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "24 3 21 4 5 6 6 10 20", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Maori translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 0 22 4 6 8 5 12 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Middle English translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Norman translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Norwegian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "52 0 47 1", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "55 2 34 9", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Old English translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "45 9 34 12", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Persian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 3 21 8 6 8 7 10 18", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Polish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "24 3 21 4 5 6 5 12 20", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Romanian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Russian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 3 44 9", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Sanskrit translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 7 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Slovak translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Slovene translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 0 26 3 4 5 4 10 24", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Spanish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 3 21 4 5 6 5 10 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Swedish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Tagalog translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 2 22 3 5 5 5 11 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Telugu translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:", "text": "They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour." ], "id": "en-cunning-en-adj-TZmtyRIh", "links": [ [ "Sly", "sly" ], [ "crafty", "crafty" ], [ "clever", "clever" ], [ "surreptitious", "surreptitious" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "wily" } ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "mākir", "sense": "sly", "word": "مَاكِر" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "xoramank", "sense": "sly", "word": "խորամանկ" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "xítry", "sense": "sly", "word": "хі́тры" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "lukáv", "sense": "sly", "word": "лука́в" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "kováren", "sense": "sly", "word": "кова́рен" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "hítǎr", "sense": "sly", "word": "хи́тър" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sly", "word": "astut" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sly", "word": "murri" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "maquiavèl·lic" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "jiǎohuá", "sense": "sly", "word": "狡猾" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "sly", "word": "狡詐" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "jiǎozhà", "sense": "sly", "word": "狡诈" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "jiǎoxiá", "sense": "sly", "word": "狡黠" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "sly", "word": "prohnaný" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "sly", "word": "mazaný" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "sly", "word": "vychytralý" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "sly", "word": "sluw" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "sly", "word": "doortrapt" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "sly", "word": "geslepen" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "sly", "word": "leep" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "sly", "word": "ruza" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "sly", "word": "ovela" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "sly", "word": "kiero" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "sly", "word": "rusé" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "word": "renarte" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "tréfego" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "xistrón" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "word": "solerte" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "word": "sangual" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "pillabán" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "prosmeiro" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "arteiro" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "galdrido" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "matreiro" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "cbieri", "sense": "sly", "word": "ცბიერი" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "mzaḳvruli", "sense": "sly", "word": "მზაკვრული" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "kveškveša", "sense": "sly", "word": "ქვეშქვეშა" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "ešmaḳi", "sense": "sly", "word": "ეშმაკი" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "gerissen" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "schlau" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "listig" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "durchtrieben" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "hinterlistig" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "abgefeimt" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "listenreich" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "gefinkelt" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "gefitzt" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "got", "lang": "Gothic", "roman": "listeigs", "sense": "sly", "word": "𐌻𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "kídaphos", "sense": "sly", "word": "κίδαφος" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "puknós", "sense": "sly", "word": "πυκνός" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "sly", "word": "ravasz" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "sly", "word": "dörzsölt" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "sly", "word": "csalafinta" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "sly", "word": "cseles" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "sly", "word": "alattomos" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "izh", "lang": "Ingrian", "sense": "sly", "word": "veekas" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "izh", "lang": "Ingrian", "sense": "sly", "word": "kavala" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "sly", "word": "glic" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "sly", "word": "furbo" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "sly", "word": "astuto" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "alt": "こうかつな", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kōkatsu na", "sense": "sly", "word": "狡猾な" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "gyohwalhada", "sense": "sly", "word": "교활하다" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "zko", "lang": "Kott", "sense": "sly", "word": "āru" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "sly", "word": "vafer" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "sly", "word": "callidus" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "sly", "word": "versūtus" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "lv", "lang": "Latvian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "viltīgs" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "lt", "lang": "Lithuanian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "gudrus" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "nrf", "lang": "Norman", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Jersey" ], "word": "rusé" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "cu", "lang": "Church Slavic", "roman": "xytrŭ", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "хꙑтръ" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "cu", "lang": "Church Slavic", "roman": "lǫkavŭ", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "лѫкавъ" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ang", "lang": "Old English", "sense": "sly", "word": "ġēaplīċ" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ota", "lang": "Ottoman Turkish", "roman": "kurnaz", "sense": "sly", "word": "قورناز" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ota", "lang": "Ottoman Turkish", "roman": "asmak", "sense": "sly", "word": "آصمق" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "makkâr", "sense": "sly", "word": "مکار" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "rend", "sense": "sly", "word": "رند" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "chytry" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "cwany" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "przebiegły" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "sprytny" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "sly", "word": "astuto" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "sly", "word": "esperto" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "sly", "word": "matreiro" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "viclean" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "șiret" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "xítryj", "sense": "sly", "word": "хи́трый" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "lukávyj", "sense": "sly", "word": "лука́вый" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "kovárnyj", "sense": "sly", "word": "кова́рный" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pronýrlivyj", "sense": "sly", "word": "проны́рливый" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "dóšlyj", "sense": "sly", "word": "до́шлый" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sa", "lang": "Sanskrit", "roman": "dhūrta", "sense": "sly", "word": "धूर्त" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "sly", "word": "seòlta" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "лукав" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "препреден" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "подмукао" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Roman" ], "word": "lukav" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Roman" ], "word": "prepreden" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Roman" ], "word": "podmukao" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "sly", "word": "mazaný" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "sly", "word": "prefíkaný" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "sly", "word": "zvit" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sly", "word": "astuto" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sly", "word": "pillo" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sly", "word": "listo" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sly", "word": "cuco" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sly", "word": "pícaro" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "sly", "word": "slug" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "sly", "word": "listig" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "sly", "word": "tuso" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "xýtryj", "sense": "sly", "word": "хи́трий" }, { "_dis1": "73 21 3 3", "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "lukávyj", "sense": "sly", "word": "лука́вий" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 25:27:", "text": "Esau was a cunning hunter.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 38:23:", "text": "a cunning workman", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:", "text": "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white / Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Skillful, artful." ], "id": "en-cunning-en-adj-lNSVAAbD", "links": [ [ "Skillful", "skillful" ], [ "artful", "artful" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) Skillful, artful." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "srǎčen", "sense": "skillful", "word": "сръчен" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "izkusen", "sense": "skillful", "word": "изкусен" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "skillful", "word": "astut" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "skillful", "word": "murri" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "qiǎomiào", "sense": "skillful", "word": "巧妙" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "skillful", "word": "šikovný" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "skillful", "word": "obratný" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "skillful", "word": "handig" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "skillful", "word": "bedreven" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ovela" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "skillful", "word": "taitava" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "skillful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "talentueux" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "cbieri", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ცბიერი" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "geschickt" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gewandt" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ausgefuchst" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gewitzt" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gewieft" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "clever" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "schlau" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gefinkelt" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ausgeklügelt" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gefitzt" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "streblós", "sense": "skillful", "word": "στρεβλός" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ügyes" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ingegnoso" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "alt": "こうかつな", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kōkatsu na", "sense": "skillful", "word": "狡猾な" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "alt": "こうみょうな", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kōmyō na", "sense": "skillful", "word": "巧妙な" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "skillful", "word": "callidus" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "gorbez", "sense": "skillful", "word": "گربز" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skillful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "umiejętny" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skillful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "wprawny" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skillful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "zręczny" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "skillful", "word": "astuto" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "skillful", "word": "esperto" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "skillful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "priceput" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "umélyj", "sense": "skillful", "word": "уме́лый" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "iskúsnyj", "sense": "skillful", "word": "иску́сный" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "lóvkij", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ло́вкий" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "skillful", "word": "seòlta" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "skillful", "word": "chytrý" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "skillful", "word": "astuto" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ingenioso" }, { "_dis1": "23 64 12 1", "code": "te", "lang": "Telugu", "roman": "nērpari", "sense": "skillful", "word": "నేర్పరి" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "24 1 21 4 4 5 5 14 23", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "42 0 45 13", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -ing", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 23 15 6 6 5 7 13", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun)", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 0 23 4 5 7 6 12 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "26 0 23 5 4 5 5 8 25", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "27 0 25 2 2 3 3 12 26", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "22 3 19 11 6 7 7 8 18", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Armenian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Belarusian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 21 4 6 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Catalan translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 2 21 4 4 6 5 13 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Chukchi translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 6 39 11", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Czech translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "20 0 24 4 5 7 6 12 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Dutch translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 0 23 3 3 4 4 12 25", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "20 0 24 4 6 7 6 12 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with French translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Galician translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "43 6 40 11", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Georgian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "22 2 23 5 5 6 5 11 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with German translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "48 6 41 6", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Gothic translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "42 6 39 13", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "47 0 48 5", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ido translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "49 0 45 6", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ingrian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "47 6 39 7", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Irish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Italian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Japanese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Korean translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "51 0 47 2", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Kott translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Latin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Latvian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Lithuanian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 21 4 5 6 6 12 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "39 3 37 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "24 3 21 4 5 6 6 10 20", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Maori translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 0 22 4 6 8 5 12 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Middle English translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Norman translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Norwegian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "52 0 47 1", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Persian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 3 21 8 6 8 7 10 18", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Polish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "24 3 21 4 5 6 5 12 20", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Romanian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Russian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 3 44 9", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Sanskrit translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 7 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 7 41 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Slovak translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Slovene translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 0 26 3 4 5 4 10 24", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Spanish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 3 21 4 5 6 5 10 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Swedish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Tagalog translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 2 22 3 5 5 5 11 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Telugu translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 6 40 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "cunning work", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:", "text": "Over them Arachne high did lift / Her cunning web.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious." ], "id": "en-cunning-en-adj-CVLiLiE-", "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Maine English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "42 0 45 13", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -ing", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 23 15 6 6 5 7 13", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun)", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "22 3 19 11 6 7 7 8 18", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 6 39 11", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Czech translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "43 6 40 11", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Georgian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "42 6 39 13", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "39 3 37 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1857, Barbara H. Channing, The Sisters Abroad, Or, an Italian Journey:", "text": "everybody gives something to the cunning little boy; his eyes are large and soft, and he wears a pointed hat, and tight breeches, and jacket", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter XV, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC:", "text": "“I shan't mind that at all, I like the little house 'cause it's got a garden, and there's a cunning room with a three-cornered closet in it that I always wanted.[…]”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Cute, appealing." ], "id": "en-cunning-en-adj-sm5zUnqT", "links": [ [ "Cute", "cute" ], [ "appealing", "appealing" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Maine, colloquial, dated) Cute, appealing." ], "tags": [ "Maine", "colloquial", "dated" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "10 1 2 87", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "cute", "word": "rozkošný" }, { "_dis1": "10 1 2 87", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "cute", "word": "milý" }, { "_dis1": "10 1 2 87", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "cute", "word": "sladký" }, { "_dis1": "10 1 2 87", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "cute", "word": "cuco" }, { "_dis1": "10 1 2 87", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "cute", "word": "mono" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "en-us-cunning.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c8/En-us-cunning.ogg/En-us-cunning.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/En-us-cunning.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ʌnɪŋ" }, { "ipa": "/ˈkʌnɪŋ/" } ], "wikipedia": [ "cunning" ], "word": "cunning" } { "antonyms": [ { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "artlessness" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "bluntness" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "candor" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "honesty" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "innocence" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "naïveté" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "simplicity" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "veracity" } ], "derived": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "wortcunning" } ], "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*ǵneh₃-" }, "expansion": "", "name": "root" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "cunning" }, "expansion": "Middle English cunning", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "*cunning", "pos": "verbal noun" }, "expansion": "Old English *cunning (verbal noun)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "cunnan", "t": "to know how to, be able to" }, "expansion": "Old English cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”)", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "cunnung", "t": "knowledge, trial, probation, experience, contact, carnal knowledge" }, "expansion": "Old English cunnung (“knowledge, trial, probation, experience, contact, carnal knowledge”)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "con", "3": "ing", "id2": "gerund noun" }, "expansion": "con + -ing", "name": "suf" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle English cunning, kunnyng, partially from Old English *cunning (verbal noun), from Old English cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”); partially from Old English cunnung (“knowledge, trial, probation, experience, contact, carnal knowledge”), from cunnian (“to search into, try, test, seek for, explore, investigate, experience, have experience of, to make trial of, know”), equivalent to con + -ing.", "forms": [ { "form": "cunnings", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "cunning (countable and uncountable, plural cunnings)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "hypernyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "skill" } ], "hyponyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "chicanery" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "duplicity" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "evasion" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "knavery" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "magic" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "ruse" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "subterfuge" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "trickery" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "wily" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 236d:", "text": "indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity." ], "id": "en-cunning-en-noun-WCG-2X3I", "links": [ [ "Practical", "practical" ], [ "experience", "experience" ], [ "aptitude", "aptitude" ], [ "skill", "skill" ], [ "proficiency", "proficiency" ], [ "dexterity", "dexterity" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:", "text": "Caliban: As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic." ], "id": "en-cunning-en-noun-DHOsXnzL", "links": [ [ "craft", "craft" ], [ "artifice", "artifice" ], [ "deceit", "deceit" ], [ "art", "art" ], [ "magic", "magic" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "glosses": [ "The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful." ], "id": "en-cunning-en-noun-pxOYtQQ4", "links": [ [ "artful", "artful" ], [ "craftiness", "craftiness" ], [ "guile", "guile" ], [ "artifice", "artifice" ], [ "conniving", "conniving" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "24 1 21 4 4 5 5 14 23", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 0 23 4 5 7 6 12 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "27 0 25 2 2 3 3 12 26", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 2 21 4 4 6 5 13 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Chukchi translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "20 0 24 4 5 7 6 12 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Dutch translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 0 23 3 3 4 4 12 25", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "20 0 24 4 6 7 6 12 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with French translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "22 2 23 5 5 6 5 11 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with German translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Italian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Japanese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Latin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 21 4 5 6 6 12 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 0 22 4 6 8 5 12 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Middle English translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Norwegian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "24 3 21 4 5 6 5 12 20", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Romanian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Russian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 0 26 3 4 5 4 10 24", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Spanish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 2 22 3 5 5 5 11 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Telugu translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "the cunning of the fox or hare", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "The natural wit or instincts of an animal." ], "id": "en-cunning-en-noun-oJa556Z0", "links": [ [ "wit", "wit" ], [ "instinct", "instinct" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "24 1 21 4 4 5 5 14 23", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 23 15 6 6 5 7 13", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun)", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 0 23 4 5 7 6 12 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "26 0 23 5 4 5 5 8 25", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "27 0 25 2 2 3 3 12 26", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "22 3 19 11 6 7 7 8 18", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 21 4 6 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 2 21 4 4 6 5 13 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Chukchi translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "20 0 24 4 5 7 6 12 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Dutch translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 0 23 3 3 4 4 12 25", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "20 0 24 4 6 7 6 12 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with French translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "22 2 23 5 5 6 5 11 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with German translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Italian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Japanese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Latin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 21 4 5 6 6 12 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "24 3 21 4 5 6 6 10 20", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Maori translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 0 22 4 6 8 5 12 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Middle English translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Norwegian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 3 21 8 6 8 7 10 18", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Polish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "24 3 21 4 5 6 5 12 20", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 3 22 4 5 7 6 10 19", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Romanian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 0 25 3 4 5 4 13 23", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Russian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 0 26 3 4 5 4 10 24", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Spanish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 3 21 4 5 6 5 10 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Swedish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "25 2 22 3 5 5 5 11 22", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Telugu translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge)." ], "id": "en-cunning-en-noun-Q4ZA42uY", "links": [ [ "Knowledge", "knowledge" ], [ "learning", "learning" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge)." ], "tags": [ "countable", "obsolete", "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "en-us-cunning.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c8/En-us-cunning.ogg/En-us-cunning.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/En-us-cunning.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ʌnɪŋ" }, { "ipa": "/ˈkʌnɪŋ/" } ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "craftiness" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "foxship" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "list" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "abet" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "art" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "beguilement" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "craft" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "cunning" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "tags": [ "figuratively" ], "word": "dodge" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "foxiness" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "guile" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "subtlety" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "wile" } ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "kovarstvo", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "коварство" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "lukavstvo", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "лукавство" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "ckt", "lang": "Chukchi", "roman": "gyttagyrgyn", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "гыттагыргын" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "sluwheid" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "ruza" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "oveluus" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "kierous" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "fourberie" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sournoiserie" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Gerissenheit" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "panoûrgos", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "πανοῦργος" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "furberia" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "furbizia" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "alt": "こうかつ", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kōkatsu", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "狡猾" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "versūtia" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "itrina", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "итрина" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "rauhanga" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "enm", "lang": "Middle English", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "sleighte" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "snedighet" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "chytrość" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "cwaniactwo" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "przebiegłość" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "spryt" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "ardil" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "astúcia" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "esperteza" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "viclenie" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "kovárstvo", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "кова́рство" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "xítrostʹ", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "хи́трость" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "ardid" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "astucia" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "cuquería" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "list" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "slughet" }, { "_dis1": "28 35 35 0 1", "code": "te", "lang": "Telugu", "roman": "kapaṭamu", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "కపటము" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "srǎčnost", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сръчност" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "umenie", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "умение" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "kundigheid" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "aptitude", "word": "taitavuus" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "alt": "こうかつ", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kōkatsu", "sense": "aptitude", "word": "狡猾" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "enm", "lang": "Middle English", "sense": "aptitude", "word": "sleighte" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "umiejętność" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "habilidade" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "capacitate" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "uménije", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "уме́ние" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "iskússtvo", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "иску́сство" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "habilidad" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "cuquería" }, { "_dis1": "32 35 31 0 0", "code": "te", "lang": "Telugu", "roman": "tarahā", "sense": "aptitude", "word": "తరహా" } ], "wikipedia": [ "cunning" ], "word": "cunning" }
{ "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms derived from Middle English", "English terms derived from Old English", "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European", "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵneh₃-", "English terms inherited from Middle English", "English terms inherited from Old English", "English terms suffixed with -ing", "English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun)", "English uncountable nouns", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Requests for review of French translations", "Requests for review of Ido translations", "Requests for review of Japanese translations", "Requests for review of Norman translations", "Requests for review of Norwegian translations", "Requests for review of Old English translations", "Requests for review of Telugu translations", "Rhymes:English/ʌnɪŋ", "Rhymes:English/ʌnɪŋ/2 syllables", "Terms with Ancient Greek translations", "Terms with Arabic translations", "Terms with Armenian translations", "Terms with Belarusian translations", "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "Terms with Catalan translations", "Terms with Chukchi translations", "Terms with Czech translations", "Terms with Dutch translations", "Terms with Esperanto translations", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with French translations", "Terms with Galician translations", "Terms with Georgian translations", "Terms with German translations", "Terms with Gothic translations", "Terms with Hungarian translations", "Terms with Ido translations", "Terms with Ingrian translations", "Terms with Irish translations", "Terms with Italian translations", "Terms with Japanese translations", "Terms with Korean translations", "Terms with Kott translations", "Terms with Latin translations", "Terms with Latvian translations", "Terms with Lithuanian translations", "Terms with Macedonian translations", "Terms with Mandarin translations", "Terms with Maori translations", "Terms with Middle English translations", "Terms with Norman translations", "Terms with Norwegian translations", "Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations", "Terms with Old English translations", "Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations", "Terms with Persian translations", "Terms with Polish translations", "Terms with Portuguese translations", "Terms with Romanian translations", "Terms with Russian translations", "Terms with Sanskrit translations", "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations", "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations", "Terms with Slovak translations", "Terms with Slovene translations", "Terms with Spanish translations", "Terms with Swedish translations", "Terms with Tagalog translations", "Terms with Telugu translations", "Terms with Ukrainian translations" ], "derived": [ { "word": "cunning folk" }, { "word": "cunning linguist" }, { "word": "cunning linguistics" }, { "word": "cunningly" }, { "word": "cunning man" }, { "word": "cunningness" }, { "word": "cunning woman" }, { "word": "overcunning" }, { "word": "uncunning" } ], "descendants": [ { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "ja", "2": "カンニング", "bor": "1", "t1": "cheating", "tr1": "kanningu" }, "expansion": "→ Japanese: カンニング (kanningu, “cheating”)", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "→ Japanese: カンニング (kanningu, “cheating”)" } ], "etymology_number": 1, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*ǵneh₃-" }, "expansion": "", "name": "root" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "cunning" }, "expansion": "Middle English cunning", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "cunninde" }, "expansion": "Middle English cunninde", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "cunnende" }, "expansion": "Old English cunnende", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "con", "3": "ing" }, "expansion": "con + -ing", "name": "suffix" }, { "args": { "1": "sco", "2": "cunnand", "3": "", "4": "cunning" }, "expansion": "Scots cunnand (“cunning”)", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "de", "2": "könnend", "3": "", "4": "able to do" }, "expansion": "German könnend (“able to do”)", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "is", "2": "kunnandi", "3": "", "4": "cunning" }, "expansion": "Icelandic kunnandi (“cunning”)", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle English cunning, kunning, konnyng, alteration of earlier Middle English cunninde, kunnende, cunnand, from Old English cunnende, present participle of cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”), equivalent to con + -ing. Cognate with Scots cunnand (“cunning”), German könnend (“able to do”), Icelandic kunnandi (“cunning”). More at con, can.", "forms": [ { "form": "more cunning", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most cunning", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "cunning (comparative more cunning, superlative most cunning)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:", "text": "They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour." ], "links": [ [ "Sly", "sly" ], [ "crafty", "crafty" ], [ "clever", "clever" ], [ "surreptitious", "surreptitious" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "wily" } ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 25:27:", "text": "Esau was a cunning hunter.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 38:23:", "text": "a cunning workman", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:", "text": "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white / Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Skillful, artful." ], "links": [ [ "Skillful", "skillful" ], [ "artful", "artful" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) Skillful, artful." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "cunning work", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:", "text": "Over them Arachne high did lift / Her cunning web.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] }, { "categories": [ "English colloquialisms", "English dated terms", "English terms with quotations", "Maine English" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1857, Barbara H. Channing, The Sisters Abroad, Or, an Italian Journey:", "text": "everybody gives something to the cunning little boy; his eyes are large and soft, and he wears a pointed hat, and tight breeches, and jacket", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter XV, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC:", "text": "“I shan't mind that at all, I like the little house 'cause it's got a garden, and there's a cunning room with a three-cornered closet in it that I always wanted.[…]”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Cute, appealing." ], "links": [ [ "Cute", "cute" ], [ "appealing", "appealing" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Maine, colloquial, dated) Cute, appealing." ], "tags": [ "Maine", "colloquial", "dated" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "en-us-cunning.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c8/En-us-cunning.ogg/En-us-cunning.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/En-us-cunning.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ʌnɪŋ" }, { "ipa": "/ˈkʌnɪŋ/" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "mākir", "sense": "sly", "word": "مَاكِر" }, { "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "xoramank", "sense": "sly", "word": "խորամանկ" }, { "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "xítry", "sense": "sly", "word": "хі́тры" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "lukáv", "sense": "sly", "word": "лука́в" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "kováren", "sense": "sly", "word": "кова́рен" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "hítǎr", "sense": "sly", "word": "хи́тър" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sly", "word": "astut" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sly", "word": "murri" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "maquiavèl·lic" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "jiǎohuá", "sense": "sly", "word": "狡猾" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "sly", "word": "狡詐" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "jiǎozhà", "sense": "sly", "word": "狡诈" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "jiǎoxiá", "sense": "sly", "word": "狡黠" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "sly", "word": "prohnaný" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "sly", "word": "mazaný" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "sly", "word": "vychytralý" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "sly", "word": "sluw" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "sly", "word": "doortrapt" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "sly", "word": "geslepen" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "sly", "word": "leep" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "sly", "word": "ruza" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "sly", "word": "ovela" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "sly", "word": "kiero" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "sly", "word": "rusé" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "word": "renarte" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "tréfego" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "xistrón" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "word": "solerte" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "word": "sangual" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "pillabán" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "prosmeiro" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "arteiro" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "galdrido" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "matreiro" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "cbieri", "sense": "sly", "word": "ცბიერი" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "mzaḳvruli", "sense": "sly", "word": "მზაკვრული" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "kveškveša", "sense": "sly", "word": "ქვეშქვეშა" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "ešmaḳi", "sense": "sly", "word": "ეშმაკი" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "gerissen" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "schlau" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "listig" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "durchtrieben" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "hinterlistig" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "abgefeimt" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "listenreich" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "gefinkelt" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sly", "word": "gefitzt" }, { "code": "got", "lang": "Gothic", "roman": "listeigs", "sense": "sly", "word": "𐌻𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃" }, { "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "kídaphos", "sense": "sly", "word": "κίδαφος" }, { "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "puknós", "sense": "sly", "word": "πυκνός" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "sly", "word": "ravasz" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "sly", "word": "dörzsölt" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "sly", "word": "csalafinta" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "sly", "word": "cseles" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "sly", "word": "alattomos" }, { "code": "izh", "lang": "Ingrian", "sense": "sly", "word": "veekas" }, { "code": "izh", "lang": "Ingrian", "sense": "sly", "word": "kavala" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "sly", "word": "glic" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "sly", "word": "furbo" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "sly", "word": "astuto" }, { "alt": "こうかつな", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kōkatsu na", "sense": "sly", "word": "狡猾な" }, { "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "gyohwalhada", "sense": "sly", "word": "교활하다" }, { "code": "zko", "lang": "Kott", "sense": "sly", "word": "āru" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "sly", "word": "vafer" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "sly", "word": "callidus" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "sly", "word": "versūtus" }, { "code": "lv", "lang": "Latvian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "viltīgs" }, { "code": "lt", "lang": "Lithuanian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "gudrus" }, { "code": "nrf", "lang": "Norman", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Jersey" ], "word": "rusé" }, { "code": "cu", "lang": "Church Slavic", "roman": "xytrŭ", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "хꙑтръ" }, { "code": "cu", "lang": "Church Slavic", "roman": "lǫkavŭ", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "лѫкавъ" }, { "code": "ang", "lang": "Old English", "sense": "sly", "word": "ġēaplīċ" }, { "code": "ota", "lang": "Ottoman Turkish", "roman": "kurnaz", "sense": "sly", "word": "قورناز" }, { "code": "ota", "lang": "Ottoman Turkish", "roman": "asmak", "sense": "sly", "word": "آصمق" }, { "code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "makkâr", "sense": "sly", "word": "مکار" }, { "code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "rend", "sense": "sly", "word": "رند" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "chytry" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "cwany" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "przebiegły" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "sprytny" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "sly", "word": "astuto" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "sly", "word": "esperto" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "sly", "word": "matreiro" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "viclean" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "șiret" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "xítryj", "sense": "sly", "word": "хи́трый" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "lukávyj", "sense": "sly", "word": "лука́вый" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "kovárnyj", "sense": "sly", "word": "кова́рный" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pronýrlivyj", "sense": "sly", "word": "проны́рливый" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "dóšlyj", "sense": "sly", "word": "до́шлый" }, { "code": "sa", "lang": "Sanskrit", "roman": "dhūrta", "sense": "sly", "word": "धूर्त" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "sly", "word": "seòlta" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "лукав" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "препреден" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "подмукао" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Roman" ], "word": "lukav" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Roman" ], "word": "prepreden" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "sly", "tags": [ "Roman" ], "word": "podmukao" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "sly", "word": "mazaný" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "sly", "word": "prefíkaný" }, { "code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "sly", "word": "zvit" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sly", "word": "astuto" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sly", "word": "pillo" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sly", "word": "listo" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sly", "word": "cuco" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sly", "word": "pícaro" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "sly", "word": "slug" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "sly", "word": "listig" }, { "code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "sly", "word": "tuso" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "xýtryj", "sense": "sly", "word": "хи́трий" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "lukávyj", "sense": "sly", "word": "лука́вий" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "srǎčen", "sense": "skillful", "word": "сръчен" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "izkusen", "sense": "skillful", "word": "изкусен" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "skillful", "word": "astut" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "skillful", "word": "murri" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "qiǎomiào", "sense": "skillful", "word": "巧妙" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "skillful", "word": "šikovný" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "skillful", "word": "obratný" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "skillful", "word": "handig" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "skillful", "word": "bedreven" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ovela" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "skillful", "word": "taitava" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "skillful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "talentueux" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "cbieri", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ცბიერი" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "geschickt" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gewandt" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ausgefuchst" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gewitzt" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gewieft" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "clever" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "schlau" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gefinkelt" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ausgeklügelt" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gefinkelt" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skillful", "word": "gefitzt" }, { "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "streblós", "sense": "skillful", "word": "στρεβλός" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ügyes" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ingegnoso" }, { "alt": "こうかつな", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kōkatsu na", "sense": "skillful", "word": "狡猾な" }, { "alt": "こうみょうな", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kōmyō na", "sense": "skillful", "word": "巧妙な" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "skillful", "word": "callidus" }, { "code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "gorbez", "sense": "skillful", "word": "گربز" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skillful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "umiejętny" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skillful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "wprawny" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skillful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "zręczny" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "skillful", "word": "astuto" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "skillful", "word": "esperto" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "skillful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "priceput" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "umélyj", "sense": "skillful", "word": "уме́лый" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "iskúsnyj", "sense": "skillful", "word": "иску́сный" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "lóvkij", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ло́вкий" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "skillful", "word": "seòlta" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "skillful", "word": "chytrý" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "skillful", "word": "astuto" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "skillful", "word": "ingenioso" }, { "code": "te", "lang": "Telugu", "roman": "nērpari", "sense": "skillful", "word": "నేర్పరి" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "cute", "word": "rozkošný" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "cute", "word": "milý" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "cute", "word": "sladký" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "cute", "word": "cuco" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "cute", "word": "mono" } ], "wikipedia": [ "cunning" ], "word": "cunning" } { "antonyms": [ { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "artlessness" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "bluntness" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "candor" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "honesty" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "innocence" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "naïveté" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "simplicity" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "veracity" } ], "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms derived from Middle English", "English terms derived from Old English", "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European", "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵneh₃-", "English terms inherited from Middle English", "English terms inherited from Old English", "English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun)", "English uncountable nouns", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Rhymes:English/ʌnɪŋ", "Rhymes:English/ʌnɪŋ/2 syllables", "Terms with Ancient Greek translations", "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "Terms with Chukchi translations", "Terms with Dutch translations", "Terms with Esperanto translations", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with French translations", "Terms with German translations", "Terms with Italian translations", "Terms with Japanese translations", "Terms with Latin translations", "Terms with Macedonian translations", "Terms with Maori translations", "Terms with Middle English translations", "Terms with Norwegian translations", "Terms with Polish translations", "Terms with Portuguese translations", "Terms with Romanian translations", "Terms with Russian translations", "Terms with Spanish translations", "Terms with Swedish translations", "Terms with Telugu translations" ], "derived": [ { "word": "wortcunning" } ], "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*ǵneh₃-" }, "expansion": "", "name": "root" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "cunning" }, "expansion": "Middle English cunning", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "*cunning", "pos": "verbal noun" }, "expansion": "Old English *cunning (verbal noun)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "cunnan", "t": "to know how to, be able to" }, "expansion": "Old English cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”)", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "cunnung", "t": "knowledge, trial, probation, experience, contact, carnal knowledge" }, "expansion": "Old English cunnung (“knowledge, trial, probation, experience, contact, carnal knowledge”)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "con", "3": "ing", "id2": "gerund noun" }, "expansion": "con + -ing", "name": "suf" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle English cunning, kunnyng, partially from Old English *cunning (verbal noun), from Old English cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”); partially from Old English cunnung (“knowledge, trial, probation, experience, contact, carnal knowledge”), from cunnian (“to search into, try, test, seek for, explore, investigate, experience, have experience of, to make trial of, know”), equivalent to con + -ing.", "forms": [ { "form": "cunnings", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "cunning (countable and uncountable, plural cunnings)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "hypernyms": [ { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "skill" } ], "hyponyms": [ { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "chicanery" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "duplicity" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "evasion" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "knavery" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "magic" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "ruse" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "subterfuge" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "trickery" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "wily" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 236d:", "text": "indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity." ], "links": [ [ "Practical", "practical" ], [ "experience", "experience" ], [ "aptitude", "aptitude" ], [ "skill", "skill" ], [ "proficiency", "proficiency" ], [ "dexterity", "dexterity" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:", "text": "Caliban: As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic." ], "links": [ [ "craft", "craft" ], [ "artifice", "artifice" ], [ "deceit", "deceit" ], [ "art", "art" ], [ "magic", "magic" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "glosses": [ "The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful." ], "links": [ [ "artful", "artful" ], [ "craftiness", "craftiness" ], [ "guile", "guile" ], [ "artifice", "artifice" ], [ "conniving", "conniving" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "the cunning of the fox or hare", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "The natural wit or instincts of an animal." ], "links": [ [ "wit", "wit" ], [ "instinct", "instinct" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses" ], "glosses": [ "Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge)." ], "links": [ [ "Knowledge", "knowledge" ], [ "learning", "learning" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge)." ], "tags": [ "countable", "obsolete", "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "en-us-cunning.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c8/En-us-cunning.ogg/En-us-cunning.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/En-us-cunning.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ʌnɪŋ" }, { "ipa": "/ˈkʌnɪŋ/" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "craftiness" }, { "word": "foxship" }, { "word": "list" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "abet" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "art" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "beguilement" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "craft" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "cunning" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "tags": [ "figuratively" ], "word": "dodge" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "foxiness" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "guile" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "subtlety" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:cunning", "word": "wile" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "kovarstvo", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "коварство" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "lukavstvo", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "лукавство" }, { "code": "ckt", "lang": "Chukchi", "roman": "gyttagyrgyn", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "гыттагыргын" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "sluwheid" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "ruza" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "oveluus" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "kierous" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "fourberie" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sournoiserie" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Gerissenheit" }, { "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "panoûrgos", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "πανοῦργος" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "furberia" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "furbizia" }, { "alt": "こうかつ", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kōkatsu", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "狡猾" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "versūtia" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "itrina", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "итрина" }, { "code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "rauhanga" }, { "code": "enm", "lang": "Middle English", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "sleighte" }, { "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "snedighet" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "chytrość" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "cwaniactwo" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "przebiegłość" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "spryt" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "ardil" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "astúcia" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "esperteza" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "viclenie" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "kovárstvo", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "кова́рство" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "xítrostʹ", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "хи́трость" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "ardid" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "astucia" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "cuquería" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "list" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "slughet" }, { "code": "te", "lang": "Telugu", "roman": "kapaṭamu", "sense": "skill of being sly or deceitful", "word": "కపటము" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "srǎčnost", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сръчност" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "umenie", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "умение" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "kundigheid" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "aptitude", "word": "taitavuus" }, { "alt": "こうかつ", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kōkatsu", "sense": "aptitude", "word": "狡猾" }, { "code": "enm", "lang": "Middle English", "sense": "aptitude", "word": "sleighte" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "umiejętność" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "habilidade" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "capacitate" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "uménije", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "уме́ние" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "iskússtvo", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "иску́сство" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "habilidad" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "aptitude", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "cuquería" }, { "code": "te", "lang": "Telugu", "roman": "tarahā", "sense": "aptitude", "word": "తరహా" } ], "wikipedia": [ "cunning" ], "word": "cunning" }
Download raw JSONL data for cunning meaning in All languages combined (34.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.